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"This will be like Woodstock 200 times over." - Alex Young, solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Source: CNN Excitement is building but some Solar Eclipse viewing plans are in a state of flux. Oregon has issues. Wildfires have closed parks and trails: JournalSentinal . What you need to know: Forbes. Barring any cloud episodes, there should be no problems in the heartland for the HUGE Solar Eclipse block-off-the-town party in St. Joseph, Missouri - 2 min 38.5 sec, site of full totality is expecting a massive turnout. Four years of planning and preparation for this event. Fox4KC has the story. Check your location: HowtoEclipse.com Weston, Missouri : 2 min 6 point 2 sec. totality, hopes to see a few Solar Eclipse watchers. Activities planned: Verna Kowertz with Main Street Galleria says shops will all be open for the day. Music and an Antique Car exhibit are part of the itinerary.  Special events are booked solid. Sorry! Holladay Distillery...

"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Interesting Links -  The Solar Eclipse Stamp . Limited Edition .The stamp reveals the Moon when you touch it. FYI - the moon also brightens when the stamp sheet is next to a sunny window. Solar Eclipse Stamps 2017 This is the first stamp to use thermochromic ink. Totally cool. Newsweek Ever heard of a Total Eclipse Chaser? Meet one who has seen 10. Adventure Meet another. In the name of Science, this Eclipse Chaser has seen 14. Missed 5. Quartz Crop Circle news. Are these orb images real?  Express   Perennial conspiracy mayhem = Planet X imminent (Sept 2017) collision with Earth. AOL Official NASA on Planet X, Niburu, etc.: "There is no factual basis for these claims." = Hoax Common link for this trio? Human - Alien - Octopus. Answer: Consciousness. Quartz Think there's no magic in the world? Think again. My guest this week is St...

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”  - Terence McKenna Blink off. I am working on a new book to update my paranormal adventure with the Energy and my interactive nightlights. In revisiting the beginning and taking into account advice I was given for 'Talking to Nightlights', I want to incorporate the suggestions in the new work, suggestions that were too late in coming for the first book but appreciated none the less. I tucked them away for a later day. And that later day is now. My challenge? Omit some of the personal process in my new creation, tidy up the writing and make it a bit leaner. After twenty years of living the story, I now have a better understanding of what I can omit. In those early days it was all so novel, beyond defining and that made it v...